Racing Returns to New Orleans in Fine Style
By Brett Martel
AP Sports Writer
They hauled off soil tainted by Hurricane Katrina’s floodwaters and rebuilt a grandstand roof ripped free by the storm’s winds.
After more than a year of renovations, costing about $1
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By Brett Martel
AP Sports Writer
They hauled off soil tainted by Hurricane Katrina’s floodwaters and rebuilt a grandstand roof ripped free by the storm’s winds.
After more than a year of renovations, costing about $16 million, a Thanksgiving tradition–horseracing–returned to New Orleans on Thursday (Nov. 23).
The annual winter meet has started on Thanksgiving Day in all but a few years since 1934. Until last year, when Katrina forced the Fair Grounds to move its season to Louisiana Downs near Shreveport, people like 16-year-old Joe Talamo had spent nearly every Thanksgiving in memory at the venerable New Orleans track, where live oak trees, hundreds of years old, grace the infield
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